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You could mention popular student-run finance extracurricular organizations such as Black Diamond Capital, a student-run hedge fund that lets you trade the market with your “partners” or Harvard Financial Analyst Club (HFAC), which will train you up on how to value a stock in no time.

You could even mention the unique full-course exchange program with MIT that lets you take literally any class from the MIT catalog giving you access to MIT Sloan School of Management's fantastic finance and accounting coursework, while enjoying the benefits of Harvard's amazing liberal arts foundations.

You could talk about Professor Edward Glaeser's legendary Economics 1011a, one of Harvard's hardest undergraduate classes, with alumni like Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. This gives you a rigorous training on Lagrangian optimization and economic modeling, which will be useful for any aspiring econ PhD students.

The list goes on. I expect this level of detail for any supplementary essay you write for any school you are serious about. This is the standard I hold my Crimson students to and support them to reach.